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l. LTJ'ZUL.A, DC. WOOD-RUSH. 



1. L. pilo'sa, Willd. Flowers umbelled, long-peduncled, 

 brown-coloured. Sepals pointed. Shady banks. 



2. L. campestris, DC., has the flowers (light brown) in 

 4-12 spikes, the spikes umbelled. Sepals bristle-pointed. 

 Fields and woods. 



3. JUNCUS, L. RUSH. 



* Scapes simple and leafless, but with sheaths at the base. Flowers in sessile 



panicles, apparently from the side, of the scape, owing to the involucral 

 leaf being similar to and continuing the scape. 



1. J. effu'sus, L. (COMMON or SOFT RUSH. ) Scape 2-4 feet 

 high, soft and pliant, furnished at the base with merely leafless 

 sheaths, the inner sheaths awned. Panicle many-flowered. 

 Flowers small, greenish, only 1 on each pedicel. Stamens 3. Pod 

 greenish-broion, triangular-obovate, not pointed. Marshes. 



2. J. filifor'mis, L., has a very slender scape (1-2 feet high), 

 fewer flowers than No. 1, and 6 stamens in each. Pod greenish, 

 broadly-ovate, and short-pointed. No leaves. 



3. J. Bal'ticus, Dethard. Scape rigid, 2-3 feet high. No 

 leaves. Panicle loose. Flowers brownish. Pod elliptical, some- 

 what triangular, obtuse but pointed, deep-brown. 



* * Stem leafy at the base or throughout ; the leaves flat or channelled, but 



never knotted. Panicle terminal. 



4. J. bufo'nius, L. Stem leafy, slender, 3-9 inches high, 

 branching from the base. Panicle terminal, spreading. Flowers 

 greenish, single on the pedicels. Sepals awl-pointed, the outer 

 set much longer than the inner and than the blunt pod. Stamens 

 6. Ditches along roadsides. 



5. J. ten'uis, Willd. Stems leafy beloic, wiry, 9-18 inches 

 high, simple, tufted. Panicle loose, shorter than the slender 

 involucral leaves. Flowers greenish, single on the pedicels ; the 

 sepals longer than the blunt pod. Seeds white-pointed at both ends. 

 Open low grounds. 



* * * Stem leafy ; the leaves terete or laterally compressed, knotted by internal 



cross partitions. Panicle terminal, the /lowers mostly in heads. 



t~ Stamens 6. 



6. J. pelocar'pUS, E. Meyer. Stems slender and erect, 6-18 

 inches high. Leaves few, thread-like, slightly knotted. Flowers 

 greenish with red, single or in pairs in the forks and along one 



